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vs THE COURIER. ! h t y- k. h r who read them In theCeutury there are very few who cannot answer them all. There is only one. the tifth, wf-ere the circumstances nnd context do not immediate'' occur to the writer. One hundred percent of Doctor Thwing's questions could be answered in an audience of Christian scientists. His conclusion that the Bible is not so popular as it va is unwarranted also, considering the number pub lished every year which more than keeps pace with the growth of the population. In the Filipines. San Pablo, Feb. 10, 1000. I suppose long before you get this you will have takes it for granted ' Aggie" has got me, and will be mourn ing a departad hero, but I am still on earth and kicking; however the kick is very feeble, as we are worn out with long marches and Ehort rations. I think when I wrote you last I bad just been ordered to break camp, take all the men able to travel (on foot) and join the rest of the company. So the next morning we started, took down all th9 ''pup" tentp, packed what was in them on the inside and stored them away for future use. At five the next morning we started out with the oxen train (called bull train) for Lipa(Leepa), about thirty-five miles. Reached there the next night at ten, after being at tacked twice. You see the carts were loaded with chow chow (provisions), and as the insurgents are always short of food, they generally tackle every provis ion train that comes along, but they seldom get one, unless it happens to be the Thirtieth regiment, and then it is generally a sure thing for them. That outfit has done nothing since they have been on the island but lose wagon trains. To return to Lipa. as I said, we got there all right, joined the rest of the company, and, the next moruing.started out with Major Mulford to take Santa Cruz, a stronghold of the enemy about forty miles away. We were in lightest marching order, carrying nothing we did not absolutely require. Very few of us had even a blanket, although some were carried on pack ponies under the saddle. I wasoieof the lucky ones. We had three days' rations in our hav ersacks and were supposed to do our own cooking in the field. We passed through this town and on the way out of it we had the warmest short battle we have had on the island, and with more men engaged on both sides. We had one battalion of the Thirtieth, two of the Thirty seventh, two of the Thirty-ninth, three light cannons (about six feet long), one cigarette gun (little can non, loots like a toy), and three small dynamite guns, which are the real stuff. When one of these shells explodes near a native trench it is all off with the native if he was there. The other side was es timated at about tcree thousand, with no cannons. The battle lasted about two hours and a half. I do not know just what the loss was, but think wo lost six or eight killed, and quite a number wounded. Our baitalion, the First, did Lot get into it; we were held in reserve to bupport the big guns, which were out of rtngeof the native small bullets. We were not destined to shine until two days later at Ma-Hi Hi, where we made a regular grandstand play and took the strongest fortification we have run up against yet, without firing a shot. After the battle we continued our march as though nothing bad happened, and one day's march from Santa Cruz we re ceived information that the enemy had chioged its stronghold over to Ma-Hi-Hi and were massed there in large num bers. So we changed our route the next mornintr, and by neon were in sight of the town. Thtre was no question about it, they were stougly entrenched in a g'lod position, ami it looked like a nasty fight, with no escape from heavy loss on our side. General Schwan was in command. He ordered Major Mul ford to take his battalion and recon noitre. Tho major marched us off to wards the rear of the town for about a mile, halted us, took a few men and went out to look the ground over for himself. Ho came back in about half an hour, said "tome on boys," led us to the edge of a ravine about two hundred and fifty feet deep, and as steep as the side of a bouse, took what lariates and ropes he could find on officers' horses aud pack ponies and started down the side of the ravine, first himself. When he could not get down by the aid of bamboo and brush, he tied hip ropes and lowered himself that way. The battal ion followed him, one man at a time, until the men were all down. Then across a small rivar waist deep, a hun dred yard9 of level ground, and up the other side, just as steep. What a climb it was! But every man got up. The major formed the battalion into a double skirmish line and started for the breast works, a march of a quarter of a mile. We ran jam into them, but from behind, where they had no protection at all. Wo were all keyed up for a stiff fight, but the niggers were gone or going. Our getting in behind them, a thing they thought absolutely impossible, so dazed and rattled them that they broke and ran without even firing a shot. So while General Schwan was talking about re-enforcements Major Mulford of the Thirty-ninth climbed up on the niggers' breast works and waved his hat for him (the general) to come on into town. The general was surprised. The Manila papers roasted General Schwan and gave all the credit to Major Mul ford and the Thirty-ninth. Since that day, until about a week ago, we have been on the march ail the time, marching from ten to twenty miles a day, getting our own meals, cotlee, bacon or canned beef or salmon and hard tack. Sometimes we slept in the houses of a deserted town and some times on tho ground in th'o open air. But now wo have been put here to parrison this town and are fairly com fortable, with houses to sleep in and cooks to get our meals. Every two or three days a company has to take one or two days rations and go out into the surrounding country, but I think our bard marching is over and I am certain ly glad of it. as we were all more or less sick and needed a rest. badly. The most serious thing that has happened to me is the puncturing of my rubber pillow, and I have no way of fixing it. It was a great comfort to me on our marches. I carried it all the time doubled over my belt, Now about this thing of sending me things: don't send ma anything 1 have to keep or carry around with me. I have no place to keep or carry it. We are nt like the First Nebraska, with a permanent home a few miles from Ma nilla. We are constantly on the move. We are stationed here today, but this time next week we may be a hundred miles from here, and it we teke anything with us we have to carry it ourselves. We take no wagon trains with us when we move only a few pack ponies (Shet land) with extra rations. I have seen men throw haversack, rations and all away because they were too tired to carry them any farther. Wagons could not go with us because we go as the crow tlies, over mountains, through rivers and cocoanut forests or, in fact, over or through anything in our way. The Thirty-ninth never swerves from its course for anything or anybody. I have two small relics to send the D G.'s. Frank Polk. All subscriptions to The Courier re ceived before the first of July, only $1 00 f M0IMIMIMMMIIMMMOIOOO0MMH LBB3- LOUISA L RICKETT8. llIMHIIHMOMMMIiei)10 CALENDAR OF NEBRASKA CLUB3. May. 12, Woman's c, English hlstory...,Stroinsburj; 12, Woman's c. Annual meeting.... North Ilend I History anil Art c, Discussion: 12, What has own of special Interest I In the year's work Sewanl ... J Self Culture c, French authors of '- ) today St. Paul , , I Woman's c. The French Republic 1 ) and Paris of today MInden II Woman's c. Business meeting. Omaha ,, J Frances M. Ford c. Annual I meeting Stromstmrg IS. Woman's c, French conversation Omaha 15, Woman's c. Ethics anil Philosophy. .Omaha 18, Woman's c. Oratory Omaha 16, Woman's c. City Improvement Omaha 16, Zctctlc c. Annual mectlug Weeping Water . i Friends In Council, Famous "' ) painters Tecumseh 1 Cozy c The new Germany Em- 16, plre Student Life in Cer- J many Tecumseh .- I Woman's c. Universities of Held- J clberg, Paris and Prague Dundee 17, Woman's c., English literature ... .Omaha .- ( Woman's c, Household econom- '' Ics. Omaha tli ( Woman's c Declaration of I Independence Plattsmouth lw I Ladies' Phllomathlan c.; Carey 1!"' Sisters Shickley IK, Soresls, American humorists Stanton 18, Woman's c, Closing da'y North Hend 18, Self-culture c. The club woman . . .St. Paul 1H 1 History and Art c.. Business mect- ' 1 Ing Sewanl picturesque placos that it will be tilled with guests well into tho summer. Club exhibits, such as budges, banners), year books, pictures of club houses nnd interiors iimy be sent to Mrs. Henry M. iMlsbury.'JOS Farwell avanue, rhxirm in of the program committee. Requetila for information may be sent to uny of the officers of tho board or to tbo chair man of the press committee, and wilt bo promptly attended to, the general Mil waukee address reaching any of them. The niombots of the board are: Presi dent, Mrs. James Sidney Peck; vice presidents, Mesdames William Plunkin ton and E. P Vilas; corresponds g sec retary, Miss Elizabeth Vose; recording secretary, Mrt. T. II. Brown; tronsurer, Mrs. Hamilton Townsend. OFFICERS OF N. F. W. a, 1K A 1900. Pres., Mrs. Anna I Apperson, Tecumseh. V. P.. Mrs. Ida W. Ulalr. Wayne. Cor. Sec., Mrs.Virginla D.Arnup, Tecumseh. Rec Sec.. Miss Mary Hill. York. Trcas., Mrs. II. F. Doane, Crete. Librarian. Mrs. G. M. Lambertson, Lincoln. Auditor, Mrs. K. J. Haincr, Aurora. To the Club Women of Nebraska: Arrangements have been made with the Burlington railroad whereby the Ne braska delegation will leave Lincoln June 2 at 1:45 P.M. on the "Chicago flyer," arriving in Chicago at seven o'clock the next moruing in time for those who wish to take the morning boat (9 A.M.) for Milwaukee. That the delegation may have a car entirely to itself it is necessary that fifteen births be pledged beforehand. The terms ate three dollars a berth from Lincoln to Chicago two and a half dollars from Omaha. These terms are not confined to the delegates, but are extended to all visiting club women who may wish to join the delegation. I hope there may be enough to fill two cars. Please send in your application for a berth at once, so that we may secure the fifteen pledges as soon as possible. L. L. RlCKKTTS, Siate Chairman Correspondence for Nebraska. Nebraska has sixteen clubs affiliated with the General Federation; fourteen of these are entitled to one delegate a:h, while the Woman's club of Omaha and the Woman's club of. Lincoln are entitled to six and five delegates, re spectively. To these must be added the five delegates from the state federa tion, which makes a total of thirty dele gates in the Nebraska delegation. There is a possibility that two or three more clubs may affiliate before the biennial meeting. There are also several visitors who are going with the delegation, mak ing a most crtditable showing for the state that was first on record as op posed to the reorganization plan, which should cut off individual clubs. The chairman of the biennial press committee issues the following in re gard to the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, to be held in Milwaukee in June: Railroad tickets may be extended to June30tb, it it is wished, though the biennial only lasts the week of June!. Wisconsin is so full of historical and Tbo Milwaukee club women ant cherr fuily making preparations for 5.XH) guests during biennial week. They argue that owing to the moro advan tageous location of Milwaukee and the great interest attached to tho reorgan ization question, tho attendance, at Dec ver will be trebled. It is to bo hoped that even this number may bo exceeded. The larger the numbor the wider spread will be the enthusiasm. Many thousacd clubwomen sympa thize with Mrs. Lowe in her bereave ment. Mr. Lowe has been an invalid for many years, but this does not lessen the grief or soften the blow. It may be some comfort to our national president to know that loving sympathy goes out to her from all over the land. Tho social part of the biennial has been arranged with much care, and has been a process of sslection from the many delightful things proposed. The Venetian night on the Milwaukee river, first proposed, has been given up because the evening's pleasure would be spoiled by bad weather. Instead ot this a double program for the evening is planned. The week's social affairs: Monday Evening Reception by the state federation at the Plankinton house, from eight until ten o'clock. Garden fete at the Deutscher club from nine to eleven o'clock. Tuesday Afternoon Reception by the Woman's club ot Wisconsin and the Athenaeum at the Athecaeum from four until six thirty o'clock. Wednesday Afternoon Driving party to Milwaukee Downer college, on lake shore, and tea served by the ladies' art and science class and College Alumnae association, from four until six thirty o'clock. Thursday Afternoon Afternoon de voted to private receptions given to the various states at private homes. Reception by press committee. The Wisconsin State Federation of Women's Clubs will open headquarters at the Plankington bouse club room during the biennial, where all visiting J. F. HARRIS, No. I, Board of Trade, CHICAGO. STOCKS AND- BONDS. Grain, Provisions; Cotton. svVs Private Wires to New York City and Many Gties East and W est. MEMBER New York Stock Exchange. Chicago Stock Exchange. Chicago Board ofTrado